It seems that perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away.— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Terre des hommes

Technology always develops from the primitive, via the complicated, to the simple.— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Keeping things simple (and independent) is very important in my opinion.
But since it is often faster (at the beginning), and especially needs much
less thinking and experience to make things unnecessarily complex,
that's unfortunately what most people do...

So, the purpose of this site is to show some "simple alternatives"—or at
least some "things", where I tried hard to (a) keep them simple and
(b) split them into independent parts.

If you need commercial support, commercial special developments, products
following this simple-is-better-philosophy, or are interested in automatization
products and/or the Raspberry Pi, please visit the website of my company
Advamation.

links

netstrings: A very simple and lightweight self-delimiting encoding
for data, e.g. for sending the data over a network. It essentially says that
the data should be encoded as: <LEN>:<DATA>,

JSON: A simple and lightweight, human-readable data format.
For data serialization or interchange, it's much simpler and causes much
less hassle than XML. So, if you don't really need the advanced features
of XML, better use JSON.

Revision Control System (RCS): Although RCS is quite old, it's still very
useful -- especially for version-controlling single files and when merging
is not a major problem.
It's very small and simple, has a human-readable (and human-editable!)
file-format, and exactly does what it should without getting into your way.

Simple Common Gateway Interface (SCGI): An excellent replacement for CGI,
which is simpler, easier to understand, and needs much less code than the
popular (and way too complicated) FastCGI.

rest2web: A website builder. Although it's not quite as simple and
flexible as I would like it to be, it's a good tool to create webpages
(like this one). And together with e.g. RCS it can be a nice simple
CMS-replacement.